Counting Toward The Unknown
May 5, 2023
“We usually count up when we don’t know what to expect,” says Rabbi Samantha Natov as we mark off the 49 days of the Omer, the time between the second day of Passover and the start of Shavuot. “The rabbis, in their wisdom, had us count this way in order to embody the experience of the Israelites — walking into the unknown.” Who knows what our journeys will bring?
